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| 1998 | ‘Grundständige Promotion’ (Ph.D. without preceding M.A.), Humanities Faculty, University of Heidelberg; magna cum laude; dissertation: „Die Erzeugung kolonialer Staatlichkeit und das Problem der Arbeit. Eine Studie zur Sozialgeschichte der Stadt Madras und ihres Hinterlandes zwischen 1750 und 1800“ [The making of a colonial state and the problem of labour. A study of the social history of Madras City and its hinterland, c. 1750-1800]. |
| 1991 – 1998 | South Asian History, European History and Indology at Heidelberg University (1991-1993; 1995-1998) and School of Oriental and African Studies, London (1993-1995) |
| 2006 – 2008 | Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. Research programme ‘World Wars and World Views: Arabic and Indian War Experiences between Self-willed Appropriation and Propaganda’, project on Indian prisoners of war in Germany during World War I. |
| 2002 | ‘Wissenschaftlicher Assistent’ (Assistant Professor), Department of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg (on leave since 1 October 2004) |
| 2001 – 2002 | Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. Research programme ‘The Indian Ocean – spaces and movements’, project on ‘maritime work culture and British colonialism in the Indian Ocean’. |
| 1999 – 2001 | Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African and Asian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. Project on ‘pathways of power: the social history of transport in colonial Orissa’ as part of the German Research Council’s Orissa Research Programme |
| 1998 – 1999 | Research Assistant, Department of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg |
| 1991 – 1998 | University education (see above) |
| 1989 – 1991 | Typesetter, Eschborn a. Ts. |
| 1985 – 1989 | Youth work, Frankfurt a. M. |
| 1980 – 1985 | Vocational training and employment as typesetter, Frankfurt a. M. |
| 1980 | Courses in computer programming, Eschborn a. Ts. |
| 1979 | Abitur (university entrance diploma), Eichwald Gymnasium, Schwalbach a. Ts. |
| 2004 (1 month) | Bodleian Library, Oxford British Library, London |
| 2004 (2 months) | National Archives of India und Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi |
| 2003 (2 months) | National Archives of India und Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi |
| 2001 (2 months) | British Library und Public Record Office, London |
| 2001 (3 weeks) | Archives of the International Labor Office, Geneva |
| 2000 (4 months) | Orissa State Archives, Bhubaneswar National Archives of India, New Delhi |
| 1999 (4 months) | British Library and School of Oriental and African Studies, London |
| 1997 (1 Monat) | India Office Library and Records, London British Library, London School of Oriental and African Studies, London |
| 1997 (4 months) | Tamil Nadu State Archives, Chennai Archive of the Archbishop of St. Thomé, Chennai Connemara Library (National Library), Chennai Institut Français, Pondicherry |
| 1996 (2 Wochen) | Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen, Halle |
| 1994-95 (12 months) | India Office Library and Records, London British Library, London School of Oriental and African Studies, London |
Various courses at the Universities of Heidelberg, Hannover and at Humboldt University, Berlin; translated titles:
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‘Coolies, caste and capital: an introduction into Indian labour history’ (2006) |
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‘Beyond the village idyll: social change and rural protest in 19th and 20th century colonial India’ (2004) |
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‘Problems and perspectives of transnational history’ (2004) |
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‘The social history of India’s metropolises from the beginnings of colonial rule to the present’ (2003-4) |
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‘Who was Shivaji? The Maratha state as history and political myth’ (2003-4) |
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‘The “sepoy” and the Empire: the social history of the Indian colonial army’ (2003) |
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‘New technologies, colonialism and Indian society in the 19th and 20th centuries’ (2002-3) |
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‘The social history of disease and famine in colonial South Asia’ (2002) |
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‘The “coolies” of the British Empire: the social history of the working classes in colonial India, c. 1850-1947’ (2001) |
Design and implementation of an innovative interdisciplinary teaching programme ‘Lehrschwerpunkt Megastädte Südasiens’ [Megacities in South Asia] (parallel undergraduate courses in history and social anthropology supplemented by excursion, film and literature program, ‘workshop for students’ with presentations by historians, anthropologists, sociologists and geographers, 2003-4)
Various lectures at the Universities of Berlin (HU), Heidelberg and Vienna (see ‘Conference Papers and Lectures’)
Panel ‘Empires, Nationalisms and the Containment of Labour in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Issues’, 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund, 6-9 July 2004 (with Ben Zachariah)
International Workshop ‘Exploring Indian Ocean Cultures and Histories’, St. Cross College, University of Oxford, 26 April 2003 (with J.-G. Deutsch et al.)
Panel ‘South Asian Society, British Colonialism and the Emergence of “Subaltern Networks” in the Indian Ocean Region’, 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Heidelberg, 9-14 September 2002 (with H. Fischer-Tiné)
Panel ‘Colonialism as Civilizing Mission – The Case of British India’, International Conference of Asian Studies (ICAS), Berlin, 9-12 August 2001 (with H. Fischer-Tiné)
Workshop ‘Perspectives on the Indian Ocean’, Zentrum Modener Orient, Berlin, 14-16 July 2000 (with J.-G. Deutsch et al.).
| 1991 – 1998 | Hans Böckler Foundation, studentship and Ph.D. scholarship |
| 2000 – 2006 | German Research Council, various research and travel grants |
1. Die Erzeugung kolonialer Staatlichkeit und das Problem der Arbeit. Eine Studie zur Sozialgeschichte der Stadt Madras und ihres Hinterlandes zwischen 1750 und 1800 (= Beiträge zur Südasienforschung 183), Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner-Verlag, 1999 [The Making of a colonial state and the problem of labour. A study on the social history of Madras City and its hinterland, c. 1750-1800].
Reviews:
| East and West 49,1-4 (1999), pp. 586-588 (Mario Prayer) | |
| Internationales Asienforum 31,1-2 (2000), pp. 151-152 (Franz-Josef Post) | |
| Periplus. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 2000, pp. 200-203 (Michael Mann) | |
| Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 29,5 (2001), pp. 525-530 (Joachim Heidrich) | |
| International Review of Social History 46,2 (2001), pp. 280-281 (Dirk Kolff) | |
| Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte 1 (2001), (K. S. Mathew) | |
| Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 44,2 (2001), pp. 232-234 (Niels Brimnes) |
2. Arbeit und Kolonialherrschaft in Indien, 1750-1947, Hagen: Fernuniversität, 2001 (Open University Reader, 264 pp.) [Labour and colonial rule in India, 1750-1947].
3. Pathways of Empire. Circulation, ‘Public Works’ and Social Space in Colonial Orissa (c. 1780-1914) (to be published).
4. Early Colonialism and the Working Poor. Studies in the Social History of Eighteenth-century Madras (revised English version of 1., in preparation).
Mumbai – Delhi – Kolkata. Annäherungen an die Megastädte Indiens, Heidelberg: Draupadi, 2006 (joint editorship with Christiane Brosius) [Mumbai – Delhi – Kolkata. Approaches to India’s Megacities].
Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2005-2012 (co-editor in the area ‘global interaction’ for South Asia) [Encyclopaedia of Modern History].
1. ‘Unterwegs zur Kolonialmetropole: Madras in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts’, in: Dietmar Rothermund (ed.): Periplus 1996, Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, pp. 61-75.
2. ‘Labour Unsettled. Mobility and Protest in the Madras Region, 1750–1800’, in: Indian Economic and Social History Review, 35,4 (1998), pp. 381-404 (refereed journal).
3. ‘The Origins of Colonial Labour Policy in Late Eighteenth-century Madras’, in: International Review of Social History, 44 (1999), pp. 159-195 (refereed journal).
4. ‘Geschichte der Arbeit jenseits des kulturalistischen Paradigmas. Vier Anregungen aus der Südasienforschung’, in: Jürgen Kocka/Claus Offe (eds.), Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 2000, pp. 121-134.
5. ‘Expropriating the Poor: Urban Land Control and Colonial Administration in Late Eighteenth-century Madras City’, in: Studies in History (new series) 17,1 (2001), pp. 81-99.
6. ‘Subaltern Networks under British Imperialism. Exploring the Case of South Asian Maritime Labour (c. 1890-1947)’, in: Jan-Georg Deutsch/Brigitte Reinwald (eds), Space on the Move. Transformations of an Indian Ocean Seascape in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Berlin: Klaus Schwarze Verlag, 2002, pp. 39-60.
7. ‘Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context: Madras, 1750-1800’, in: Modern Asian Studies 36,4 (2002), pp. 793-826 (refereed journal).
8. ‘State Formation and “Famine Policy” in Early Colonial South India’, in: Indian Economic and Social History Review 39,4 (2002), pp. 351-380 (refereed journal).
[reprinted in: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (ed.), Land, Politics and Trade in South Asia, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.]
9. ‘Arbeit und Kolonialherrschaft im neuzeitlichen Südasien: Eine Einführung’, in: Karin Preisendanz/Dietmar Rothermund (eds), Südasien in der ‘Neuzeit’. Geschichte und Gesellschaft 1500 – 2000 (= Weltregionen 5), Wien: Promedia, 2003, pp. 194-211.
10. ‘“The Bridge-Builders.” Some Notes on Railways, Pilgrimage and the British “Civilising Mission” in Colonial India’, in: Harald Fischer-Tiné/Michael Mann (eds): Colonialism as Civilizing Mission. The Case of British India, London: Anthem Press, 2003, pp. 195-216.
11. ‘“Opening up the Country”? Orissan Society and Early Colonial Communications Policies (1803-1866)’, in: Studies in History (new series), 20,1 (2004), pp. 73-130.
12. ‘Lateinsegel und Dampfturbinen. Der Schiffsverkehr des Indischen Ozeans im Zeitalter des Imperialismus’, in: Dietmar Rothermund/Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (eds), Der Indische Ozean. Das afro-asiatische Mittelmeer als Kultur- und Wirtschaftsraum, Wien: Promedia, 2004, pp. 207-225.
13. ‘Erkenntnisdruck und Denkbarrieren: Anmerkungen zur indischen Arbeitshistoriographie’, in: Shalini Randeria/Martin Fuchs/Antje Linkenbach (eds): Konfigurationen der Moderne. Diskurse zu Indien (= Soziale Welt, Sonderband 15), Baden Baden: Nomos, 2004, pp. 349-366.
[also published in Hungarian language: ‘Az indiai munkásmozgalom történetének margójára’, in: Ezmélet, 62 (2004).]
14. ‘Die “Lenksamkeit” des “Lascars”. Regulierungsszenarien eines transterritorialen Arbeitsmarktes in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts’, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 31,3 (2005) (refereed journal), pp. 323-353.
15. ‘Das Dickicht indischer Megastädte. Eine Annäherung’, in: Ravi Ahuja/Christiane Brosius (eds), Mumbai – Delhi – Kolkata. Annäherungen an die Megastädte Indiens, Heidelberg: Draupadi, 2006, pp. 7-15.
16. ‘Mobility and Containment: The Voyages of South Asian Seamen, c. 1900-1960’, in International Review of Social History, annual supplement 2006 (under publication, refereed journal).
17. ‘“Captain Kittoe’s Road”. Early Colonialism and the Politics of Road Construction in Nineteenth-century Peripheral Orissa’, in: Georg Pfeffer (ed.): Periphery and Centre in Orissa: Groups, Categories, Values, New Delhi: Manohar, 2006 (under publication).
18. ‘Indischer Ozean’, in: F. Jaeger (ed.), Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, vol. 5, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2007 (under publication).
19. ‘Networks of Subordination – Networks of the Subordinated. The Case of South Asian Maritime Labour under British Imperialism (c. 1890-1947)’, in: Harald Fischer-Tiné/Ashwini Tambe (eds), Spaces of Disorder. The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia and the Indian Ocean, London: Anthem, 2006 (under publication).
20. ‘Subcontractors in Early Colonial South Asia: The Case of the Madras Maistries’, in: Jan Lucassen/Ratna Saptari (eds.): Subcontracted Labour in Asia, Richmond (Surrey): Curzon Press, 200? (under publication).
21. ‘Notes on Labour Protest in Early Colonial India’, in: Prabhu Mohapatra (ed.), Labour Matters, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 200? (under publication).
1. Periplus 1996, pp. 217-220: Christian Weiß, Tom Weichert, Evelin Hust, Harald Fischer-Tiné (eds.): Religion – Macht – Gewalt. Religiöser ‘Fundamentalismus’ und Hindu-Moslem-Konflikte in Südasien.
2. Periplus 1999, pp. 199-201: Janaki Nair: Miners and Millhands. Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore.
3. Internationales Asienforum 3-4,30 (1999), pp. 397-399: Michael Mann: Flottenbau und Forstbetrieb in Indien, 1794–1823 (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 175).
4. Das Historisch-Politische Buch 48,1 (2000), pp. 69-70: Vincent J. H. Houben, J. Thomas Lindblad u. a.: Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia.
5. English Historical Review CXVI, 468 (Sept. 2001), pp. 975-976: Michael Mann: Bengalen im Umbruch. Die Herausbildung des britischen Kolonialstaates 1754-1793.
6. Das Historisch-Politische Buch (2001), pp. 525-526: Margrit Pernau: The Passing of Patrimonialism. Politics and Political Culture in Hyderabad, 1911-1948.
7. Jahrbuch der Forschungsstiftung für vergleichende europäische Überseegeschichte 2 (2002), pp. 219-221: Wolfgang Reinhard (ed.): Verstaatlichung der Welt? Europäische Staatsmodelle und außereuropäische Machtprozesse (= Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, Kolloquien 47).
8. Historische Anthropologie 10,2 (2002), pp. 316-318: Sanjay Sharma: Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century (SOAS Studies on South Asia).
9. Internationales Asienforum 33,3-4 (2002), pp. 377-379: Ian J. Kerr (ed.): Railways in Modern India (in: Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History).
10. Indian Economic and Social History Review 40,1 (2003), pp. 119-121: Meena Radhakrishna: Dishonoured by History. ‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial Policy.
11. Indian Economic and Social History Review 40, 3 (2003), pp. 370-372: Prasannan Parthasarathi, The Transition to a Colonial Economy. Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800.
12. H-Soz-u-Kult, 18 November 2003/Historische Literatur 1, 4 (2003), pp. 165-167: Birthe Kundrus: Moderne Imperialisten. Das Kaiserreich im Spiegel seiner Kolonien.
13. Internationales Asienforum 35,1-2 (2004), pp. 161-163: Nandini Gooptu: The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-century India (= Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society).
14. Periplus 2005: Neuere Literatur zum Indischen Ozean – eine kritische Würdigung (review article; joint authorship with Katrin Bromber, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Margret Frenz, Patrick Krajewski and Brigitte Reinwald).
15. Indian Economic and Social History Review (2005): Chitra Joshi, Lost Worlds. Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories (im Druck).
16. Indian Economic and Social History Review (2005): Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Existence, Identity and Mobilization. The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay 1890-1919 (im Druck).
17. H-Soz-u-Kult/Historische Literatur 2005: Douglas Hay/Paul Craven (eds.), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (Studies in Legal History; in preparation).
1. ‘’Umstrittene Zentren: Konstruktion und Wandel sozio-kultureller Identitäten in der indischen Region Orissa’. Auftaktkonferenz des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms im Schloß Salzau, 26.–29. Mai 1999’, in: Periplus 2000, Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte.
2. Workshop ‘Exploring Indian Ocean Cultures and Histories’, in: Periplus 2003, Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, pp. 114-117.
Labour Unsettled. Mobility and Protest in the Madras Region, 1750–1800: Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, 24 March 1997.
Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context: Madras, 1750–1800:
1st International Conference of the Association of Indian Labour
Historians, New Delhi, 16-18 March 1998.
The Origins of Colonial Labour Policy in Late Eighteenth-century
Madras: 15th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies,
Prague, 9-12 September 1998.
Kritische Anmerkungen zur antimodernistischen Säkularismuskritik in Indien: Interdisziplinäres Seminar ‘Das Spannungsverhältnis Mehrheit-Minderheit-Staat in Südasien’, Südasien-Institut der Universität Heidelberg, 19 November 1998.
Labour History after Culturalism. Some Suggestions from a South Asianist’s Perspective: ‘Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit’, Konferenz am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 4-6 March 1999.
Wege der Macht: Die Verkehrsgeschichte Orissas während der Britischen Kolonialherrschaft (1803-1947): Inaugural Conference des Orissa-Schwerpunktprogrammes der DFG, Salzau, 26-29 May 1999.
Subcontractors in Early Colonial South India: The Case of the Madras Maistries:
| 1) | South Asia History Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 26 October 1999; |
| 2) | ‘Subcontracted Labour in Asia’, Workshop, International Research Programme ‘Changing Labour Relations in Asia’ (CLARA), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 22-24 November 1999; |
| 3) | Seminar, Integrated Labour History Research Programme, V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, 11 April 2000. |
Unberührbarkeit und die moderne Arbeitswelt: ‘Südasiatische Weltbilder’, Universitätsvorlesung an der Freien Universität Berlin, 16 December 1999.
Koloniale Staatsformierung und indische Gesellschaft im 18. Jahrhundert: Der Blick von unten: Berliner Südasien-Kolloquium, Institut für Afrika- und Asienwissenschaften, 21 December 1999.
Expropriating the Poor: Urban Land Control and Colonial Administration in Late Eighteenth-century Madras City:
| 1) | Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture, National Institute of Social Work and Social Sciences (NISWASS), Bhubaneswar (Indien), 5 February 2000; |
| 2) | 2nd International Conference of Association of Indian Labour Historians, Noida, 16-18 March 2000. |
Of Civilizers and Vivisectionists. Archival Evidence on Communications Development in Colonial Orissa and Some Problems of Conceptualisation: Jahreskonferenz des Orissa-Forschungsprogramms der DFG, Salzau, 10-13 May 2000.
‘Opening up the Country’? Orissan Society and Early Colonial Communications Policies (1803-1866): 16th European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, Edinburgh, 5-9 September 2000.
‘Captain Kittoe’s Road’. Early Colonialism and the Politics of Road Construction in Peripheral Orissa:
| 1) | 3rd Annual Conference of the Orissa Research Programme, Salzau, 22-27 May 2001; |
| 2) | University of Cambridge, History Faculty, World History Workshop, 3 December 2001. |
Anhaltspunkte für eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte des Verkehrs im kolonialen Südasien. Einige allgemeine Überlegungen, gewonnen aus einer Fallstudie über die indische Region Orissa: Historisches Kolloquium der Fernuniversität Hagen, 12 June 2001.
‘The Bridge-Builders.’ Some Notes on Railways, Pilgrimage and the British ‘Civilising Mission’ in Colonial India: International Convention of Asia Scholars, Berlin, 10 August 2001.
State Formation and ‘Famine Policy’ in Early Colonial India: 4th European Social Science History Conference, The Hague, 27 February 2002.
Subaltern Networks under British Imperialism. Exploring the Case of South Asian Maritime Labour (c. 1890-1947): International Conference ‘Cultural Exchange and Transformation in the Indian Ocean World’, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 5-6 April 2002.
Networks of Subordination – Networks of the Subordinated. The Case of South Asian Maritime Labour under British Imperialism (c. 1890-1947)
| 1) | 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Heidelberg, 9-14 September 2002. |
| 2) | Seminar, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 26 February 2003. |
| 3) | Seminar, Department of History, Delhi University, 5. March 2003. |
Arbeit und Kolonialherrschaft im neuzeitlichen Südasien: Eine Einführung: Ringvorlesung ‘Südasien in der ‘Neuzeit’. Geschichte und Gesellschaft 1500-2000’, University of Vienna, 9 December 2002.
Die ‘Lenksamkeit’ des ‘Lascars’. Indische Seeleute und transterritoriale Arbeitsmarktregulierung, 1918 bis ca. 1960: Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Südasien-Institut, Heidelberg, 18 November 2003.
Armuts- und Sozialpolitik in Indien seit ihren kolonialen Anfängen: Ringvorlesung ‘Armuts- und Sozialpolitik weltweit. Entwicklungsmuster und Wandel in Lateinamerika, Afrika, Asien, Osteuropa und der Europäischen Union’, University of Vienna, 18 December 2003.
Mobility and Containment: The Voyages of South Asian Seamen, c. 1900-1960
| 1) | IVth International Conference of the Association of Indian Labour Historians, Noida, 18.-20 March 2004. |
| 2) | 19th VAD Conference (German African Studies Conference), Hannover, 5 June 2004. |
| 3) | 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund, 6-9 July 2004. |
Lateinsegel und Dampfturbinen. Der Schiffsverkehr des Indischen Ozeans im Zeitalter des Imperialismus: Ringvorlesung ‘Das afro-asiatische Mittelmeer als Kultur- und Wirtschaftsraum’, University of Vienna, 14 June 2004.
Raum und britischer Imperialismus in Indien: Probleme einer Sozialgeschichte des Verkehrs im langen 19. Jahrhundert: Sektion ‘Raum und Imperium. Kommunikationsgeschichte in Europa im langen 19. Jahrhundert’, 45. Deutscher Historikertag, Kiel, 15 September 2004.
K. N. Chaudhuris Indischer Ozean – eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme: Workshop ‘Raum und Zeit im Indischen Ozean – Zur Konstruktion einer historischen Untersuchungseinheit’, Historisches Seminar der Universität Hannover, 22-23 January 2005.
Workers and the Dialectics of Scale. Preliminary Observations on the Spaces of South Asian Labour History: Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg), Workshop ‘Rethinking Labour from a Global Perspective’, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 1-3 December 2005.
Circulation, ‘Improvement’ and ‘Public Works’: Conceptualising the Social History of Transport in Colonial India: 19th European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden, 27-29 June 2006.
Scenarios of Labour Regulation and Transterritorial History. Some Preliminary Observations, Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg), Workshop ‘Rethinking Labour from a Global Perspective II’, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 12-14 October 2006.
Wie Seeleute Bauern blieben und Arbeitsmigranten wurden. Eine Fallstudie zu kolonialer Proletarisierung in Südasien: Ringvorlesung ‘Wie aus Bauern Arbeiter wurden’, University of Vienna, 18 October 2006.
Eighteenth-century Society, Colonialism and the Working Poor:
Reconsidering the Case of Madras: 6th International Conference
on Labour History, Association of Indian Labour Historians, Delhi
University, 1-3 November 2006.